Movies? TV? Games? All still on the table, or under the TV, as the case may be.

Amazon is getting ready, yet again, to release a set-top box—at least according to sources speaking to Recode. The Android-powered box would deliver Amazon's body of video content, both licensed and produced, and possibly also be a vector for apps on TV.

The company has been rumored to be working on a set-top box for close to a year. Bloomberg Businessweekreported in April that the same division that works on Amazon's Kindles was putting together a Roku- or Apple TV-like product for content delivery. The Wall Street Journal reported the same rumor in October, stating that Amazon was set to release the box for the holidays. However, Christmas came and went with no Amazon box.

Recode's sources specify that the box will run some version of Android, though the site does not specify whether it will be a heavily modified fork of the OS (a la Kindle OS) something hewing a little closer to stock Android, or a new fork entirely. Rumors that may be about the same box have also suggested Amazon's product may be more like a console, similar to the Ouya, priced below $300. That Amazon also purchased a games studio, potentially for creating first-party titles, suggests a lean toward gaming.

All that said, rumors seem to be getting ahead of the company. The WSJ reported in January that Amazon was quietly working to license TV channels to build its own web-delivered TV service—a rumor that the company quickly squashed.

Casey Johnston
Casey Johnston is the former Culture Editor at Ars Technica, and now does the occasional freelance story. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Applied Physics. Twitter@caseyjohnston